For DNSSEC to succeed, we need to get DNSSEC validation happening within DNS resolvers at many different levels within the Internet ecosystem. Ideally, the DNSSEC validation will occur as close as possible to the end user (either a person or a device) so that the attack surface where an attacker could inject bogus DNS packets is Read more…
Apr 30
TDYR #149 – Getting Vaccinations For Upcoming Tavel To Djibouti
TDYR #149 – Getting Vaccinations For Upcoming Tavel To Djibouti by Dan York
Apr 30
Summary Report Now Posted of W3C/IAB “Strengthening The Internet (STRINT)” Workshop (Featured Blog)
Given that I’ve written here about the original call for papers for the W3C/IAB “Strengthening The Internet Against Pervasive Monitoring (STRINT)” Workshop and then subsequently that the STRINT submitted papers were publicly available, I feel compelled…
Apr 30
Join The VUC Podcast Live On Friday, May 2, To Talk TLS/SSL And The Need For “More Crypto”
Why do we need “more crypto” everywhere? How can we get more people using TLS (SSL) in applications and services? If you are interested in this topic and want to discuss it with others, please do join the “VoIP Users Conference (VUC)” conference call this Friday, May 2, 2014, at 12 noon US Read more…
Apr 29
New DNSSEC Deployment Maps for April 28, 2014, Now Available
I’ve made a couple of updates recently to our DNSSEC Deployment Maps section of the site. First, I updated the page to display the most recent deployment maps from yesterday, April 28, 2014. The big change from previous maps is that Australia now appears in blue as the folks there have signed the .AU top-level Read more…
Apr 28
TDYR #0148 – What Do You Do On Your First Work Day After Vacation?
TDYR #0148 – What Do You Do On Your First Work Day After Vacation? by Dan York
Apr 28
FIR #753 – 4/28/14 – For Immediate Release
Interview coming with DomainSkate’s Howard Greenstein and David Mitnick; Quick News: SEC guidelines for social networks during proxy fights, 3D printers print 10 houses in 24 hours, Two NFL teams post 2014 schedules on SnapChat, the LinkedIn crowd deco…
Apr 24
TDYR #147 – It Is Hard To Podcast When You Cannot Speak
TDYR #147 – It Is Hard To Podcast When You Cannot Speak by Dan York
Apr 23
Wired: It’s Time To Encrypt The Entire Internet
Is it time to “dump the plain text Internet” and encrypt everything everywhere? That’s the main thrust of an article by Klint Finley in Wired last week: “It’s Time to Encrypt the Entire Internet“. As he writes: The Heartbleed bug crushed our faith in the secure web, but a world without the encryption software that Read more…
Apr 22
CloudFlare Enabling IPv6 For All Customers
Buried in a post last month about Martin Levy joining CloudFlare was this gem: CloudFlare is enabling IPv6 by default for ALL of their customers! If you are not aware of CloudFlare, the are a “content delivery network” (or “content distribution network”… either way it is “CDN”) that takes your website and makes it available through their Read more…
